B.C. court strikes down provision in law that allows social worker access to parents’ medical data

By Christopher Guly (May 5, 2023, 1:15 PM EDT) -- A British Columbia woman, who argued that a provision of the province’s Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA) violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, found some relief at the B.C. Court of Appeal, which declared the impugned section “of no force or effect” and issued a suspended declaration of invalidity that gave the provincial legislature 12 months to “address the constitutional infirmity” and redraft the provision....